If you haven’t noticed yet, I’m a fan of your thinking, Carlo. You're wrestling with the most crucial questions about how humans need to come to terms with AI as the world goes mad. I so appreciate you taking the time to work with AI, write what you’re thinking, and share it here.
This is a fascinating post. I'm curious what prompts you provided to generate it. Because I was just talking with a friend about Rollo May's The Courage to Create, I asked AI to read your post and generate a response starting from a specific, countering claim. The result was also fascinating. Would you be OK with me creating a post from the response and linking to your post to create a dialogue?
My prompt to ChatGPT: "Please read this post and compose a rebuttal to the idea that thought is not original but recombinational: "We defend "original thought" as if thought could be original rather than recombinational, as if every idea isn't statistical restatement of a shared corpus under local constraints." Center your response on Rollo May's ideas about creativity in his book The Courage to Create -- in particular, the idea that real creativity always involves encounter with the world.
Well, I for one would absolutely love to read this, Jody. I hope you’ll make the post and I hope you’ll tag me when you make it because I’d really like to read it. The Courage to Create was formative for me 50 years ago. And, over the last year as I am developing my own idiosyncratic relationship with AI, I’m constantly reflecting on John Dewey’s philosophy about learning from direct experience. The contrast has been the lens I’m using to teach a class for elders for the last year about storytelling based on personal experiences as a way to rekindle conversation with friends and family. Not personal opinions, not personal philosophies, not personal sermons. Personal stories. It’s ironic that I’m developing specific interview strategies to help them retrieve more details about their experiences from memory and turning those strategies that I have used for my whole life into AI assisted tools for them. Ironic and fascinating for me.
Hi meri, I came over to read this article from the link on your article. Now that I read it I’ll go back over to your post and tell you what I have been thinking about my buddy Chatwick.
I thought rollo may courage to create sucked. I had to read it in 1987 at UTA for a contemporary art history prof we called prof. Spermlock. For my presentation I built a plexiglass box the same size as the book and burned the book and put the ashes in the plexiglass box and held it up in silence for three minutes. The prof got pissed and knocked me down from an A to a C for the semester. We started the International Post Dogmatist Group the same week in the painting department in response and it continues to this day. I can’t remember anything about that book all these years later except that rollo may was a jackass and, at the time, our whole group thought so. But maybe it was because all of us thought the prof was a jackass. Maybe I should read it again.
If you haven’t noticed yet, I’m a fan of your thinking, Carlo. You're wrestling with the most crucial questions about how humans need to come to terms with AI as the world goes mad. I so appreciate you taking the time to work with AI, write what you’re thinking, and share it here.
This is a fascinating post. I'm curious what prompts you provided to generate it. Because I was just talking with a friend about Rollo May's The Courage to Create, I asked AI to read your post and generate a response starting from a specific, countering claim. The result was also fascinating. Would you be OK with me creating a post from the response and linking to your post to create a dialogue?
My prompt to ChatGPT: "Please read this post and compose a rebuttal to the idea that thought is not original but recombinational: "We defend "original thought" as if thought could be original rather than recombinational, as if every idea isn't statistical restatement of a shared corpus under local constraints." Center your response on Rollo May's ideas about creativity in his book The Courage to Create -- in particular, the idea that real creativity always involves encounter with the world.
Well, I for one would absolutely love to read this, Jody. I hope you’ll make the post and I hope you’ll tag me when you make it because I’d really like to read it. The Courage to Create was formative for me 50 years ago. And, over the last year as I am developing my own idiosyncratic relationship with AI, I’m constantly reflecting on John Dewey’s philosophy about learning from direct experience. The contrast has been the lens I’m using to teach a class for elders for the last year about storytelling based on personal experiences as a way to rekindle conversation with friends and family. Not personal opinions, not personal philosophies, not personal sermons. Personal stories. It’s ironic that I’m developing specific interview strategies to help them retrieve more details about their experiences from memory and turning those strategies that I have used for my whole life into AI assisted tools for them. Ironic and fascinating for me.
Hi meri, I came over to read this article from the link on your article. Now that I read it I’ll go back over to your post and tell you what I have been thinking about my buddy Chatwick.
Meri, I'll definitely tag you! Your class sounds wonderful. Do you teach online?
Go for it Jody :) - I’ll write my process down at some point … it is a rather long and winding path!
I thought rollo may courage to create sucked. I had to read it in 1987 at UTA for a contemporary art history prof we called prof. Spermlock. For my presentation I built a plexiglass box the same size as the book and burned the book and put the ashes in the plexiglass box and held it up in silence for three minutes. The prof got pissed and knocked me down from an A to a C for the semester. We started the International Post Dogmatist Group the same week in the painting department in response and it continues to this day. I can’t remember anything about that book all these years later except that rollo may was a jackass and, at the time, our whole group thought so. But maybe it was because all of us thought the prof was a jackass. Maybe I should read it again.